SIFF will present 272 feature films this year and only 3 of them are principally concerned with sports. While I hold out hope that “An Evening with Kyle MacLachlan” will focus on his youth golfing career in Yakima, I suspect that this will not be the case. Three nights — 1.1 percent of the festival’s entries — are all you get, sports fans. Continue reading Scandal! Bias! Just 3 Sports Movies at SIFF 2103
But, faced with years of tunnel-construction and Viaduct-destruction, the Port and Mariners have decided a new stadium is a bridge too far. Why? Fears of traffic congestion. Here is a delightful section of the Port’s letter to all and sundry in which they discover that they never got their promised east-west connectors, that tolls divert traffic, and that they forgot to demand meaningful construction mitigation. Continue reading New Stadium Notion Leaves Port, the Ms Feeling Congested Even Before Tunnel Toll
Wait. I thought the Huskies didn’t make the NCAA Tournament, why do they have a game tonight?
The Huskies did not make the tournament for the first time since 2008; however, they were selected as a number one seed in the NIT (National Invitation Tournament). The women start play in the WNIT tomorrow night, and San Francisco will host Wazzu in the CBI Tournament. Continue reading Ask Mr. Preview: The NIT Tournament
This year’s SIFF has six movies that deal primarily or peripherally with athletic competition: Four are about soccer, two about cricket. Oh, the Europhilia! Most of these movies take familiar sports film plots and move them to different locales. The one unique entrant: Red Eyes (Ojos Rojos), about which more…right now! Continue reading Six-pack of SIFF: The Sports Fan’s Guide
